St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-29
NO. 272.
don't know whether he got anything o,

don't know whether he got anything or
not, but he walked over to
the back end OF the room
and Tim called him Henry, and Henry came
Then they went out again, Tim saying to me
You'll have to play my hand; I'll be back in
about twenty minutes. He did come back and
then we quit playing, and Mr.. Oyerton went
home. Tim and / went out on the sidewalk
and asked him to go down street with me,
and he said: Not just now, my partner
wants to see me- So l went off down the
street. 1 should think about a quarter to
eleven, and left Tim standing there in 'front.'
of Peters saloon. That was the last time
saw him alive
Chris Peters, the proprietor of the sa.
loon at No. 81 East Fifth street, was
called, but he did not seem very anX-
iOus to testify, and could add nothing to
IMPORTANT WITNESS MISSING.
When Henry Shields was called for,
there was no answer, and Lieut..
Cook informed the coroner that
the police had been unable to
find him. Sheriff Richter volunteered
the information that Shields usually
slept at the Jail during the day. but
sometimes he went somewhere else. He
didn't know where he could be found,
but thought Shields would show up for
duty at Z O'Clock. The inquest was adj
journed until II o'clock this morning,
when Shields and Overton will be
sworn.
The disappearance of the principal
witness caused considerable specula-
ton. Nobody saw him, but the suppo-
sition is that he came to the Jail last
night at the usual hour. Sheriff Richter
was seen in his office last night by a
GLOBE reporter, who asked per-
mission to see Shields. The sher-
cnf3
he could not be seen until Mr..
Sanborn. the sheriff's attorney, had
talked with him. The sheriff left the
Office shortly after. At 9:15 Attorney
SanbOrn arrived and he was taken in
side the Jail, where he remained for an
hour and half, evidently in conversa-
tion with Shields. When permission was
asked to see Shields after the alderman
left, Deputy Lunkinheimer refused to
allow the reporter to go inside. ''He'S
locked in and he amt got anything to
"He'll tell all he knows at the inquest
tomorrow" There are those who
question whether Shields will tell all he
knows at the inquest or not, and talk is
heard to the effect that Shields knows
altogether too much. If rumOrS are
true, it is probable that the world will
be startled with a sensation of big pro-
portions, but there is no indication that
anything will be developed that will go
to show that the shooting was not
justifable. Shields was close friend
of Graham. and when the sheriff
started down to the basement he met
Shields on the stairway coming up,
and the watchman appeared very much
agitated. When the sheriff asked him
where he had been he stammered and
hesitated before replying: Il was down
fixing the furnace" 1t was Shields ac-
tion which aroused the suspicious Of the
sheriff and prompted him to look
through the basement.
Graham leaves white wife to whom
he has been married ten years, and
son seven years old. They live ON the
corner of Thomas and Jay streets. Mrs.
Graham was very much distracted when
she heard of his death for the first time
yesterday morning. She was at the
morgue all the forenoon.